It was not known until the whale started jumping that it was seriously entangled. Rescue teams are hoping for another ...

Whale watchers noticed a rope wrapped around the mammal's fin recently while the whale was breaching the surface.

approaching for an attempt to cut or loosen the rope would be challenging and dangerous – perhaps impossible if the whale is breaching or actively feeding. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a researcher ...

Rescue teams are looking for an entangled humpback whale last seen off the coast of Orange County. Video recorded by Davey’s ...

The accompanying Instagram post by Mark Girardeau highlights “the tragedy of yet another human-created problem” in the form of a commercial fishing rope running through the whale’s mouth and wound ...